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In General
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: In terms of being the main heroic faction, they're this to the Earth Federation from the original Gundam. The Earth Federation Space Forces were the dominant military in the Earth Sphere in spite of the ruthless tactics Zeon used, and were run by a bureaucracy filled with corrupt officials. By contrast, the AEUG is a small, tightly-knit resistance movement dwarfed by the State Sec it's fighting against, and as a result its leadership is much more down-to-Earth and in tune with the lives of their men.
- Internal Reformist: They don't seek to overhaul the Earth Federation, they just want to get rid of the Titans and for the most part would rather keep the Federation itself intact.
- La Résistance: They began as Internal Reformists, only to take up arms in response to the Titans' brutality.
- Mildly Military: While the AEUG does have uniforms, they aren't strictly enforced and members can for the most part wear whatever they want as long as its practical. The hierarchy of the AEUG is also very informal outside of battle.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: As a result of the AEUG lacking a central power base and mostly drawing on various individuals with gripes against the Titans, you have people like a former Zeon ace pilot, an ex-EFSF captain, a former Titans officer, and an angsty teenage Newtype all fighting alongside one another.
Kamille Bidan
Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (Japanese), Jonathan Lachlan-Stewart (English), Travis Milne (EN, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam), James Beach (EN, Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3
Main mecha: RX-178 Gundam Mk-II, MSZ-006 Zeta Gundam
I hate the Federation Forces, and I hate the Titans even more!
The protagonist of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Kamille is a troubled teen whose home colony became the main base for the Titans, a tyrannical military force whom he grows to resent. This culminated in him joining the AEUG to fight the Titans, believing that someone should stand up for what he believes in. Though he can be reckless and arrogant, his character is marked by compassion, and as the series progresses, he vows to stop the war, no matter the personal cost.
- Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Downplayed since he and Fa aren't officially together, but Kamille does gravitate right to Four both times he's on Earth and they're separated.
- Action Hero: His being quick to anger and fighting nets him a bit more than he bargained for and Kamille comes to hate his position as one of these.
- Ace Custom: The Zeta Gundam, built and further customized to Kamille's specifications.
- Ace Pilot: He becomes the AEUG's deadliest pilot rather quickly.
- Always Save the Girl: Ignores Quattro's and Amuro's protests about abandoning or killing Four in favor of trying to convince her to go with him. Overlaps with Love Martyr. It's not just Four; his particular Mommy Issues have left him wanting to rescue all women. He even reaches out to Haman.
- Antagonistic Offspring: To say that Kamille doesn't have a good relationship with his father would be putting it lightly.
- Anti-Hero: Kamille is definitely not a knight in shining armor as demonstrated by his unstable behavior in the beginning half of the series, but he does fight for a just cause and for his loved ones.
- Archenemy: He and Jerid hit this point and never go back.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Does this with his fellow pilots a lot, especially Quattro.
- Betty and Veronica: His main love interests are his Nice Girl former-neighbor-turned-teammate black-haired Fa, and mysterious turquoise-haired enemy Titans pilot Four.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Fa. They fight about everything, including, but not limited to, his piloting, her piloting, the other people on the ship, who is supposed to look after Shinta and Qum, why they're involved in the war...
- Berserk Button: Don't make fun of him for having a girly-sounding name if you don't want to get into a fight...at least until around the halfway point, after which he really doesn't care. He also has no tolerance for bullshit from adults, particularly if they're abusive or liars - he spontaneously decks Quattro for the latter when he refuses to acknowledge being Char. Also don't tease him about his relationships or appearing emotional.
- BFS: Putting aside how large beam sabers are relative to human size, he creates one in the form of Hyper Beam Saber courtesy of the biosensor.
- Broken Smile: Towards the end of the series, he smiles more and more as he gets increasingly stressed over losing those close to him. It doesn't go unnoticed by the likes of Fa, Bright, and Quattro, who end up concerned for him over it.
- Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Averted when Kamille not-so subtly takes the opportunity to stare at Fa's cleavage when she's only wearing a bathrobe, but played straight where Four is concerned. Make of that what you will.
- Character Development: Whilst still prickly, he chills out considerably over the course of the series. He also loses his Revenge Before Reason tendencies.
- Character Tics: Chewing on his thumbnail when under stress.
- Chick Magnet: Mostly because he's a super-Newtype, causing him to attract Phlebotinum Girls right and left, as well as having a more natural relationship with Fa.
- Childhood Friend Romance: With Fa, after Four's death.
- Chivalrous Pervert: There's the aforementioned moment when he looks at Fa's cleavage, and he has no problem giving Torres a souvenir from Hong Kong in the form of what is all but stated to be a pornographic video tape.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Becomes one for Rosamia during her brief stay on the Argama, placating her by going along with her delusion that he's her big brother.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: The artwork
for a Zeta symphonic soundtrack album turns him into Mark Hamill. Arguably, the artwork also turns Quattro and Fa into Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher so it has a Star Wars thing going on. - Contrasting Sequel Main Character: With Amuro.
- While they are both Reluctant Heroes, Amuro struggled more with connecting with his fellow crew members and the pressure of being their primary offensive source. Kamille meanwhile has a Hair-Trigger Temper and is more vocal with lashing out at those around him, contrasting Amuro who would more frequently withdraw into himself.
- Whereas Amuro began piloting the Gundam because the original pilot was killed in the Side 7 and he wanted to protect Frau and prevent any more casualties after seeing Frau's family die, Kamille outright steals the last Mk. II during a test run for the selfish reason of wanting to get back at an unruly cop.
- Amuro didn't have the best relationship with his parents due to unfortunate circumstances, but it was clear his parents cared for him and vice versa. Kamille outright despises his father and loves his mother, though still ends up being quite brusque to her. Amuro also inadvertently caused his father's brain damage and eventual death, while Kamille's actions end up leading to both of his parents killed, with Franklin nearly dying directly at Kamille's hands.
- Amuro ends the last series crying tears of joy after finding the White Base crew safe and sound, and he abandons what's left of the Gundam, its core fighter, to get to them. Kamille infamously ends Zeta smiling and rambling incoherently in the Zeta's cockpit after having gone insane—with his last lines showing that he thinks he's trapped inside—and after having lost the majority of his friends and family over the course of the series.
- Death by Adaptation: Driven to Suicide in the novels, after being forced to kill Rosamia.
- Determinator: Kamille was always stubborn, but he becomes one of these late in the series.Kamille: "Even if I must sacrifice my soul, my body...I will defeat you!!"
- Dissonant Serenity: Late in the series, after being forced to kill Rosamia in order to save the Argama Kamille ends up internalizing Amuro and Quattro's warnings over believing that loved ones on the other side can't be saved, and smiles as he says "Newtypes are only meant to kill each other." Taken even further in the final episode, where he goes insane after Scirocco curses him, and he ends the series smiling with a decidedly childlike innocence about him.
- Divergent Character Evolution: Early on in the series, he is noted by multiple people like Bright and Quattro to be "another Amuro Ray" thanks to all the traits Kamille has in common with him. But when Kamille switches from the Gundam Mk. II, which is identical to its predecessor from the One Year War, to the Zeta Gundam, Kamille very quickly establishes himself as a capable pilot in his own right. Even before this, it was lampshaded.Mirai: "Is he a boy like you, Amuro?'''Amuro: "No. He's very different."
- Equippable Ally: Obviously not Kamille himself, but it applies to Zeta's waverider form. Both before and after Kamille's second descent to Earth, Kamille lets Quattro's Hyaku-Shiki make use of it to safely re-enter the atmosphere and to ride it back to the Argama when it was caught in the middle of battle and they needed to get there as quickly as possible.
- Fix Fic: His fate in the compilation movies is often considered to be this by fans, embracing with Fa at the end.
- Foil: To Jerid and Scirocco. See their entries for more on that.
- Friend to All Children: Kamille says he dislikes kids in one episode when dealing with Shinta and Qum, but in all other instances, he's not terribly bothered by their rowdy behavior, does his best to reassure them, and even smiles when in their company every now and then. There's also how friendly he is when he interacts with Cheimin in their only interaction in the series, as he's smiling and holding hands with her after she very excitedly approaches the Mk. II when it lands nearby.
- Gender-Blender Name: Kamille particularly hated his feminine-sounding namenote - and thus tried to assert his manhood by learning martial arts and developing a hobby in amateur mobile suit creation."Kamille's a Man's name! AND I'M A MAN!"
- Generation Xerox: He might have inherited the hobby in amateur mobile suit creation from his parents: both were Federation officers and among the main engineering team that designed the Titan's prototype unit, RX-178 Gundam Mk-II.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Whether it's punching Jerid in the face at the very beginning, Quattro a few times later, or even Torres the bridge crew guy for teasing him, Kamille does this a LOT.
- The Gunslinger: Accomplishes some pretty impressive feats over the course of the series, such as managing to shoot Buran's Asshimar in a small, vital point while it's in the middle of transforming, canceling out a beam shot by Jerid with one of his own and repeating the same stunt in the final episode against Scirocco, and in A New Translation, using the very unique "Beam Confuse" maneuver.
- Hairstyle Inertia: In a very brief flashback showing a much younger Kamille with his mother, Kamille has retained his fluffy bob.
- Hollywood Autism: Kamille once offhandedly calls himself autistic/jiheishō (自閉症). Given he was facetiously emphasizing he was Just a Kid and the term's literal meaning in Japanese ("social withdrawal syndrome"), this is basically an antiquated way of saying "antisocial".
- Honor Before Reason: During the operation to take Jaburo from the Titans. At first he averts this and shoots the ballute of one Titans mobile suit during re-entry when they can't fight back and consequently kills them, only to immediately regret it and wait until after re-entry to resume fighting.
- Hot-Blooded: While fighting. He's sometimes like this outside his mecha too, if angered enough, especially early on. Later he learns to control his emotions, but he still can get pretty loud if you piss him off.
- Hypocrite:
- He often rants about how his enemies are murderers when they shoot down his friends, yet he has the highest kill count of anyone in show. He justifies it to himself on the basis that his targets are often wanton killers who could care less about The Laws and Customs of War, whereas Kamille insists that he kills because he doesn't have much of a choice. He at least has a point in how it's often out of self-defense, and that it doesn't mean he has to like having to kill.
- There's also the moment Kamille gets his ass kicked by Wong, and Kamille has the gall to say you shouldn't use violence to get people to act the way you want. Because Kamille is truly the bastion of pacifism.
- One big indicator of his Character Development is that he learns to outgrow this flaw, best seen when he witnesses Jerid's death, and rather than feel triumphant or relieved when he would be justified to do so, he goes into hysterics over the tragic pointlessness of it all.
- Idiot Ball: In a moment that can best be described as a brain-fart he opens his helmet while still in space as he is talking to Emma. She immediately calls him out on it once she closes it again for him.
- Implausible Deniability: Has great Newtype powers that are already awakening at the beginning of the series, but he repeatedly denies he's a Newtype or ignores such claims. This isn't to cover it up, but out of sheer refusal to see himself as anything special, even not realizing his sensory is abnormal in the first place. It takes until towards the very end of the series for him to finally acknowledge and work with it in mind.
- It's Personal: With Jerid, especially after the Titans' pilot kills Four. Though it still sort of dies down so it's more one-sided on Jerid's part while Kamille doesn't take him as seriously.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kamille can be a huge asshole, but he is very compassionate.
- Just a Kid: For the most part, averted. But in episode 9, he tries to invoke this to avoid getting an earful and a "correction" from the adults in his vicinity, but it's thrown back in his face when they remind him that he's consciously chosen to get into a mobile suit multiple times and has already claimed multiple kills by this point—he's a soldier, and he should be prepared to be treated like one.
- Kick the Dog: In episode 12, he shot a defenseless enemy's ballute that protects his Mobile Suit from the heat while entering the Earth's atmosphere, and watches in shock that soldier roasting slowly to death. Fortunately, Kamille realized that this kind of tactic is extremely cruel and unfair and didn't do it again.
- Lightning Bruiser: The Zeta Gundam.
- Love at First Sight: With Four. It's a Newtype thing.
- Love Martyr: For Four. He goes out of his way to try and persuade Four to leave the Titans and come with him to the AEUG, but Four leaves him every single time. Even so, he keeps trying, even after she's shown she's not above killing him to try and get her memories back.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: From the Gundam Mark II to the Zeta Gundam. He is also the first Gundam protagonist to do this (not including the novel version of Mobile Suit Gundam, where Amuro switches from the RX-78-2 to the G3 Gundam).
- Mildly Military: VERY mildly military. Kamille refuses to accept a rank in the AEUG, even when everyone else has one.
- Military Brat: Both mom and dad worked for the Titans. This is probably responsible for about 95% of his problems.
- Mood-Swinger: Kamille's moods are unstable at best. He can swing from happy to sad to enraged in the space of a few seconds.
- Morality Chain: He's this to The Sociopath Lt. Quattro, no matter how much he has to scream at him or punch him to make his points. It only fully becomes apparent with Char's Face–Heel Turn post-Zeta once Kamille is catatonic and Char discards his Quattro identity, since he never seems to have even checked on how Kamille was doing, or mentioned him again in animated canon. A well and truly broken Chain.
- Moral Myopia: He cuts down countless opponents, but flips out and calls you a murderer if you touch one of his friends. Jerid is fond of calling him out on this.
- Named After Somebody Famous: French sculptor Camille Claudel — a woman used and then broken by her relationship with her mentor Rodin, who spent the last several decades of her life institutionalized...
- Parental Abandonment: Early on in his fight with the Titans, Kamille witnesses the death of both his parents.
- Psychic Powers Of course. He's a Newtype, but doesn't accept it until late in the series.
- A VERY powerful Newtype as well. The actions Kamille pulls off in the Zeta at the end of the series are completely insane, even for a Newtype, such as making the Zeta totally invulnerable with a forcefield generated by the biosensor and his Newtype power, extending the Beam Saber into an energy whip that had to be at least 2 miles long, and then freezes The O in place so he can crash the Waverider straight through the cockpit. Take a minute to remember this is a Gundam series.
- Ramming Always Works: At the end of Zeta, he channels the power of the dead and impales Scirocco on Zeta's waverider mode nose.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Quattro's Blue. Totally in keeping with their Color Motifs. The same goes for Scirocco.
- Replacement Goldfish: Char's first response upon sensing Kamille is to view him as "Amuro Ray", then immediately afterwards as "...Lalah Sune". Char then attempts to use another extremely powerful 17 year-old Newtype from desperate circumstances as a Morality Pet, this time Morality Chain. He spends the series futilely trying to protect Kamille while still allowing him to become an extremely deadly pilot and sacrifice himself in a Newtype battle. Once again, it ends well for neither Char's protege nor himself. (Interestingly, Amuro refuses to speak to him about Lalah, and so Kamille never even thinks of asking Char about her – the most he gets is a brief guess at Newtype bonds from Mirai.)
- Revenge Before Reason: Kamille displays a tendency to seek revenge without thought for the consequences from the start of the series. In the first two episodes alone he attacks a member of the Titans with his fists for making an off-hand comment about how girly his name sounds, calls a Military Police officer who has him in custody a brute, attacks said officer physically when he throws something at Kamille for insulting him — in the middle of the prison and just after his mother's lawyer comes to bail him out... And then he runs out of the prison, ignoring the chaos all around him from a crashed mobile suit and his mother's presence, to Gundamjack the Mk II Gundam for the purpose of "getting back" at the MP officer for having him beaten in response to being attacked. He even ends up joining the AEUG as part of his way of "getting even" with the Titans, after first menacing the aforementioned MP officer with his newly hijacked mobile suit.
- The Rival: He and Jerid have a nasty one going. It largely involves them killing one another's loved ones. Later on it becomes one sided on Jerid's part as Kamille has bigger things on his mind.
- Shirtless Scene: Needs to change his shirt before suiting up to sortie in the Mk. II after Mirai and her children are held hostage in episode 18.
- Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Kamille's very volatile disposition is partially his way of coping with his frustrating circumstances, both before and during the course of the series. Made clearest when Torres ribs him for being homesick and Kamille's first response is to start a physical altercation. When Kamille starts smiling more and is more passive outside of combat towards the end of the series, it's a sign he's been so worn down he can't keep it up.
- Spell My Name With An S: "Camille Vidan" was an early unofficial romanization widespread in the fandom. The official post-export romanisation is 'Kamille Bidan'.
- Stay in the Kitchen: Mildly. Kamille isn't especially comfortable with women going into combat, especially Fa and Reccoa, seeing as the former is a civilian girl who's barely learning how to handle herself in a mobile suit, while Reccoa has been in trouble before when in missions. On the other hand, he never gets similarly concerned over Emma, seeing as Emma is the most accomplished female pilot in the whole series.
- Stealth Pun: In a very roundabout way. In one of the promotional images for Gundam Beyond, a series of promotional images as well as video created to help celebrate Gundam's 40th anniversary, Kamille stands opposite Heero, who hails from a series where the Gundams are given numbered designations by the opposition, from 1-5. Kamille pilots the Zeta Gundam, which is named for the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet.
- Teen Genius: He was well-known as an amateur mecha builder before he left his colony. The dub goes so far as to suggest that he designed the Zeta Gundam himself, though that isn't quite true: what actually happened was that he saw the Hyaku-Shiki's blueprints, and noticed the unfinished transformation systemnote , had a few ideas on improving it and sent a report to Anaheim's engineers, who were able to use his ideas to complete the transformable frame and build it into the Zeta. In essence he came up with the basic design concepts and the name, and Anaheim refined it into the proof-of-concept mobile suit.
- Transforming Mecha: The Zeta Gundam.
- Trauma Conga Line: Starts with Kamille's mom being made a hostage and then murdered. And then his dad. And then it just gets worse from there. As the war escalates pretty much every named character Kamille forms a deep bond with, save for Fa, all get killed off. Four, Sarah, Rosamia, Katz, Reccoa, and Emma all pretty much die in quick succession in the winding episodes. And then, in his final push to defeat Scirocco, Kamille completely burns himself out using his Newtype abilities and suffers a complete mental breakdown.
- Unknown Rival: To Scirocco. The final episode features the very first time they meet face to face and even directly talk to each other despite battling each other near the beginning of the series. When Kamille barges into the standoff between Char, Haman, and Scirocco, the latter can only address Kamille as "boy" at first.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His hijacking the Gundam Mk. II ends up as the crux for both of his parent's deaths shortly afterwards, and that's just the first of many cases where an impulsive decision of his has severe consequences in the aftermath.
- Would Hit a Girl: Ask Lila about that. Or Rosamia. Or, outside of combat, Beltorchika.
Quattro Bajeena
CAPTAIN QUATTRO, HE IS A CHAR. But seriously... See the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam entry on Char's character page.
Fa Yuiry
Voice Actors: Miyuki Matsuoka (Japanese, TV), Satomi Arai (Japanese, Movies), Angie Beers (English)
Main mecha: MSA-005 Methuss
Kamille's neighbor and classmate in his home colony of Green Noa, Fa joins up with the AEUG after they save the escape pod she was in. Determined to prove herself to Kamille and the rest of the AEUG, she undergoes pilot training to try and stay useful.
- Action Girl: Voluntarily changes from a Girl Next Door to a mobile suit pilot.
- Action Survivor: The mecha anime equivalent. She doesn't score any brilliant kills, or take a level in badass, or anything like that, but she survives Zeta, which is a victory in and of itself.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Alternates between this and Dogged Nice Girl with regards to Kamille. It's easier to count the times when they aren't fighting about something.
- Betty and Veronica: The slightly-tomboyish, good-hearted, and straightforward Betty to Four's mysterious and problematic Veronica.
- Can't Catch Up: She tries very hard, but the Methuss... well, sucks when compared to other units. (Its main problem is that, while it's an okay Mobile Armor in terms of mobility - meaning it's a good scout - its Mobile Suit form is lousy.)
- Childhood Friend Romance: Downplayed with Kamille, eventually. They have a sweet ambiguous embrace as a Relationship Upgrade in the hallway. A New Translation has her and Kamille futilely trying to kiss with their helmets on before Fa laughingly squeals that it's ridiculous, and ends with her and Kamille embracing in the void of space after surviving the Gryps Conflict.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: A mild example. She's certainly very suspicious anytime Kamille talks to another girl. Most pronounced with Rosamia and her delusion that Kamille is her elder brother. Fa is clearly annoyed by Rosamia, but she also seems to realize that Kamille's interest in Rosamia has nothing to do with romance, and doesn't do much to interfere.
- Color Motif: Golden yellow. It's standard for the AEUG pilot suits, but it's also her regular uniform. She even has a yellow turtleneck at the beginning.
- Dogged Nice Girl: To Kamille. It's not that he doesn't notice her, it's just that there's a lot of other stuff going on in his life right now.
- First Girl Wins: Notable, as Kamille isn't as openly affectionate towards her as he is towards Four. But because Four dies and Kamille ends up mind-crushed by Scirocco she ends up taking care of him. (The last shot of the movie implies that it's much more mutual than that.)
- Flawed Prototype: The Methuss can transform from a MA with decent mobility, into a lousy MS. The transformation itself is simple and quick, and the unit itself is less a combat-ready MS than a proof-of-concept for effective movable frame transformation; as if to prove this, it's apparently very easy to repair and maintain (which would facilitate flight data accumulation and recovery). It is underarmed and underpowered, but fixing those results in a decent MS, and its descendants are average to good units.note It's a little unfair that Fa's piloting isn't mentioned more, as she survived the Gryps Conflict in the Methuss.
- Foil:
- To Kamille's other love interest, Four. Kamille and Four have Love at First Sight and don't have nearly as many arguments as Kamille and Fa do, and whenever they aren't fighting, they're positively overjoyed to be together. However, in spite of their chemistry and professed love for one another, Four ends up leaving Kamille every single time he tries to get her to leave the Titans. Meanwhile, for as much as Fa gets into arguments with Kamille at the drop of a hat, she goes out of her way to stay by Kamille and support him whenever possible regardless of romantic sentiment, leaving much safer civilian or support crew life in order to become a pilot.
- To her predecessor Frau Bow as well. Fa's relationship with Kamille superficially mimics the one Frau had with Amuro, but also diverges significantly. Fa and Kamille are not best friends and not nearly as close and fight more and cooperate less as a consequence; it's also lampshaded in the way Fa is frequently absent from Kamille's life/long stretches of episodes. Fa also decides to become a mobile suit pilot and sees combat. Despite being 17, she's more temperamental and childish than the more composed and stoic Frau and Prone to Tears, both before and after battle starts taking its toll.
- Forgiveness: Fa's parents are arrested by the Titans as part of the domino effect of Kamille's thoughtless and selfish actions at the beginning, meaning the Yuirys are facing a very grim, if unknown fate. While she's incredibly upset by this and Kamille immediately and correctly realizes It's All My Fault, Fa never once gets angry with Kamille about it or holds it against him* . See Plucky Girl.
- Get a Hold of Yourself, Woman!: An unhappy Fa gets slapped twice by Emma during the same lecture.
- Like an Old Married Couple: How everyone else views them. She and Kamille tend to communicate concern and affection by arguing.
- Love Martyr: To a degree, following Kamille and putting up with his many, many arguments.
- Mukokuseki: Possibly as a result of mixed ancestry, she has a thoroughly-Chinese (if reversed) name and blue eyes.
- Parental Substitute: She's the one mainly responsible for looking after Shinta and Qum, and Kamille says she even tried to look after him at Side 7 due to his own Parental Neglect. She continues this in the AEUG, trying to keep Kamille (and to a lesser extent Katz) stable.
- Plucky Girl: Overcomes her family's awful and uncertain fate to become a competent soldier, help whoever needs it, remain loyal to Kamille, and stay kind.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Her attempts to become a serious pilot also result in her becoming far ruder and more bitter. Kamille gets the worst of it, but she occasionally bickers with others like Emma too, even turning a run to the last mobile suit into a competition so she can prove herself despite the seriousness of the matter. Reccoa may have spotted this when she eventually tells Fa not to end up like her.
- Tsundere: Dere. Mostly Fa's a sweet, resilient, caring Nice Girl. However, Kamille brings out her bickering side like nobody's business.
Emma Sheen
Voice Actors: Maya Okamoto (Japanese), Lisa Christie (English)
Main mecha: RMS-099 Rick Dias, RX-178 Gundam Mk-II, RX-178+FXA-05D Super Gundam
A former Titans' pilot, Emma defected to the AEUG after realising what sort of people she was working for. She is close to Kamille and Captain Bekkener, and serves as a substitute mother to Katz Kobayashi, whom she does her best to keep out of trouble.
- Ace Pilot: One of the most skilled female pilots in the franchise.
- Action Girl: In any of her Mobile Suits, Emma can put up a pretty good fight.
- Ascended Extra: By technicality. Despite her prominent introduction and becoming the Gundam Mk-II's designated pilot later, she isn't actually given much to do throughout the whole series. She is however a great deal more prominent in video games, either ones that adapt the series or crossover games, particularly the Dynasty Warriors Gundam series.
- Cool Big Sis: To Kamille and Fa.
- Defector from Decadence: Originally part of the Titans; switched sides after learning how much of a group of evil bastards the Titans were.
- Designated Girl Fight: With Reccoa.
- Dude Magnet: After joining the AEUG, most of the male crew members (especially Captain Henken) are very much attracted to her.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Only develops her Newtype abilities well after her credentials as an ace have been established.
- Heel–Face Turn: Episode 4. She starts to really see how fucked-up the Titans are in episode 3.
- Horrible Judge of Character: It's what got her into the Titans to begin with, not understanding what she's really dealing with. She also completely lacks context on how much of a Jerkass that Kamille's father Franklin is, which allows him to try to backstab them after she brought him to the AEUG in the first place.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Henken towers over her.
- Hypocrite: Emma has her moments just like the other major characters. When Fa goes out in a Rick Dias to aid them against Jerid and only get's in their way, Emma gives her two Bright Slaps and lectures her on the necessity of acting without emotion and following orders. Emma had previously done the same thing during their attempt on Jaburo where she kept ignoring orders to engage Scirocco and attempted atmospheric reentry with a damaged MS.
- Killed Off for Real: By Yazan Gable, following her battle with Reccoa.
- Lady of War: She remains graceful while fighting.
- Married to the Job: Emma never really has a romantic interest in anybody, primarily because she's too focused on her duties as a pilot. This is especially shown when she doesn't reciporocate Captain Henken's attraction for her, although her opinion towards him seemed on its way to changing towards the end of the series.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: Becomes the regular pilot of the Gundam Mark II following Kamille's promotion to the Zeta.
- Only Sane Man: Often. Out of all the cast members she's easily the one who grabs the Idiot Ball the least.
- Parental Substitute: To Katz while they are at the front.
- Psychic Powers: Demonstrates the ability to sense powerful Newtypes, even at a distance, and can also sense the deaths caused by a gas attack on a colony.
- State Sec: For about two minutes.
- Team Mom: In the same vein as Bright being a Team Dad, Emma definitely cares for the younger pilots of the AEUG, but she also channels that concern and her own professionalism into both frustrated lectures and backing up Kamille, Fa, and Katz during fights.
- Vasquez Always Dies: The most competent female pilot in the show (barring the villainous Haman Karn). Often contrasted with the more feminine Fa, she ends up dead while Fa survives.
- The Worf Effect: When Jerid and Mouar unveil the new Gabthley suits, Emma is the unlucky established badass that gets soundly beaten to show off how powerful the pair are. Her Rick Dias is scrapped and she's reduced to an escape pod which Kamille and a Nemo manage to rescue.
Henken Bekkener
Voice Actors: Jurota Kosugi (Japanese—debut role), Dave Pettitt (English)
The captain of the Argama and then the Radish, Henken Bekkener forms close friendships with Kamille Biden, Emma Sheen, and the rest of the AEUG pilots. Like Emma, he is often a voice of reason among the AEUG leadership.
- All Love Is Unrequited: He often tries to express his attraction for Emma but is never really successful, mainly because the latter is too focused on her duties as a soldier to think about romance.
- Cannot Spit It Out: His early attempts at hitting on Emma inevitably end up like this.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: It's shown that he asphyxiates due to the air getting sucked out of the Radish's ruined bridge before the Radish explodes.
- The Captain: The first one we see in the series, in fact. He starts off as the captain of the Argama and transfers over to the Radish when Bright joins the AEUG.
- The Good Captain: Most definitely a good one.
- Dogged Nice Guy: To Emma.
- Genius Bruiser: An understated example, as the Radish doesn't get much spotlight, but it's shown that he can keep up with Bright's strategies without having to discuss them beforehand.
- Gentle Giant: 190cm and easily one of the nicest of the named cast. What sets him apart from Bright is that he never engages in correction with any of his crew members, and even at his most frustrated, he always lets the likes of Katz and Kamille off with a stern warning.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Emma.
- Killed Off for Real: By Yazan Gable after he destroys his ship.
- Large and in Charge: One of the tallest characters in Zeta, and also The Captain.
- Not So Above It All: Normally Henken's a very calm person, but when he tries putting the moves on Emma Sheen he immediately heads straight into dork territory.
- Only Sane Man: Shares this role with Emma, acting as a rational adult on a team of otherwise childish screw-ups.
- Senseless Sacrifice: Gets himself and his ship blown up to save Emma. She dies soon afterwards.
- Team Dad: Isn't nearly as stern as one as Bright is. It also bears mentioning that his being able to hold a friendly conversation with younger members of his crew extends to even Quattro.
Reccoa Londe
Voice Actors: Masako Katsuki (Japanese), Meredith Taylor-Parry (English)
Main mecha: MSA-005 Methuss, MS-14A Gelgoog, PMX-001 Palace Athene
A pilot aboard the Argama and intelligence operative for the AEUG, Reccoa Londe acts as a mentor and support to the emotional Kamille after he joins their cause. Her own issues and pain eventually grow to a momentous point of no return.
- Ace Pilot: While she's not a match for the real aces, she's not actually a bad pilot, and even manages to pull Kamille's fat out of the fire while piloting the Methuss (which is not exactly a top-grade mobile suit). After her Face–Heel Turn, she becomes a genuinely dangerous opponent.
- Adaptational Heroism: Though she was reluctant to do it, her colony gassing killed millions of people and she blamed the AEUG for it. A New Translation removes the action and as such she's easily much more sympathetic.
- All Amazons Want Hercules: Battle-hardened Reccoa wants a strong partner for a few reasons. Feeling safer and not having to fight among them. When it doesn't happen with Char, she becomes desperate.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Reccoa is by far the nicest person dealing with Kamille just after he enters the AEUG. Unfortunately, she's compassionate because she herself is hurting quite badly. Her own lack of dealing with it without combat, or anyone else's to recognize this — except for Kamille, who's concerned for her in return — leads to tragedy.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: 'The Call Of Darkness' implies this to be part of the reason for her Face–Heel Turn.
- Broken Bird: As self-explained to Fa, the kind and seemingly-confident Reccoa hasn't stopped fighting for eight years.
- Caring Gardener: Reccoa has several different types of plants she cares for in her quarters on the Argama, but no flowers. Kamille is understandably seriously unsettled when she subverts this by getting rid of all of them. See Flower Motif.
- Cool Big Sis: Gives this vibe at first, helping Kamille adjust to life in the AEUG.
- The Cynic: Reccoa is unhappy about a lot and doesn't believe in much of anything anymore — but a part of her still yearns to. It lets her connect with Kamille — and then Scirocco takes complete advantage of it.
- Does Not Like Men: Zigzagged. She spouts this sort of rhetoric after her Face–Heel Turn, while still complaining about her need to find a "strong" man and be fulfilled as a woman. She's had negative experiences with men yet still has hope of a relationship she likes, so it means she doesn't hate them all; she's just been incredibly disappointed by life.
- Even Evil Has Standards: She was very happy to get rid of Bask.
- Evil Counterpart: To Emma Sheen. Emma starts off a member of the Titans but defects to the AEUG early on, while Reccoa starts off a member of the AEUG but ends up defecting to the Titans.
- Evil Redhead: After joining Scirocco.
- Face–Heel Turn: She eventually joins Scirocco after being taken in by his rhetoric about creating a world ruled by women.
- Flower Motif: The one plant Reccoa left behind was a cactus that starts to flower after she leaves the Argama for good, suggesting that while she made a Face–Heel Turn, she was right in claiming there was nothing in the AEUG for her anymore.
- Foil:
- To Frau Bow. They're both redheads who were 15 during the One Year War. Frau was orphaned, Reccoa lost track of her family. She's also one of the "teenage guerrillas" Tem Ray mentions during the pilot of the last show. — the difference is that Frau had and still has Amuro to love and to do the fighting for her. Reccoa's who she might have become without him.*
- And to Emma: They both defect to each other's original side. She's overly ruled by her emotions, whereas Emma can be a bit too coolheaded and dispassionate, preferring her job as a soldier without other emotional entanglements. It's largely their backgrounds: Emma was a military academy graduate from a military family, who had never experienced combat; Reccoa was a teenage guerilla who's taken to using combat and danger to numb her emotional issues.
- Also to Quattro/Char. Early on in the series, Quattro admits to Kamille that he can't see himself making a living outside of the battlefield and gives this as the reason why he never married. Much later on, Reccoa has a very similar conversation with Fa when she explains that her experiences over being separated from her family during the One Year War and constantly fighting from then on left her with an inability to live or function without taking risky jobs, which she also admits is the reason why she couldn't settle down. But while Quattro ends up lending his Blood Knight tendencies to a greater cause and is perfectly content with that without any disillusions that he is one, Shell-Shocked Veteran Reccoa ends up needing more reassurance and satisfaction beyond the risky coping mechanisms she's developed and this desire leads her to join Scirocco.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Her emotional radar may be damaged, but she pins her hopes for salvation on a relationship with Char, whose problems with Lack of Empathy are not only consistent but who is shown to be unable to properly connect with, protect, or nurture anyone. She follows it up by throwing her lot in with the equally sociopathic Scirocco, but it's a subversion as she no longer cares about things like "character".
- I Just Want to Be Loved: Reccoa believes this will fix her other problems. More justifiably, she wants to feel appreciated for what she does and not feel like she's a tool. Unfortunately, Kamille is generally too young and Char isn't capable of it, so she settles for Scirocco's claimed "appreciation" and the fact that he gives her very powerful weapons. Her last word seem to confirm her belief women will always be used by men, one way or another.
- Informed Ability: Is supposed to be a superb spy, but gets captured easily at least twice.
- In Harm's Way: "I guess I don't feel alive unless I'm living on the edge."
- Killed Off for Real: If she wasn't dead after Emma defeated her, she certainly was when Yazan destroyed her mobile suit.
- Love Makes You Evil: She defects to the Titans after getting taken in by Scirocco's charisma.
- Moral Myopia:
- Double subverted. Accuses Char of being a
Selfish Evil creep who thinks the world revolves around him, which IS the case... just not for this series. And given her own behavior it's damned funny. - She constantly expects special treatment from the Argama crew whenever she attacks them, while being totally unwilling to do the same.
- When ordered to gas a colony by Bask. She constantly shows that she doesn't want to do it, but ends up carrying it out anyway. And then she blames the AEUG for not being quick enough to stop it this time after they prevented one such incident before.
- Double subverted. Accuses Char of being a
- Morality Pet: Even after switching sides, Reccoa still has a hard time facing Kamille in combat.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Given that she makes a Face–Heel Turn when she's no longer satisfied when working with the Argama, there's the heavy implication she joined the AEUG more out of her needs to fight (and feel protected that way) and less because the Titans needed to be opposed.
- Psychic Powers: Displays Newtype abilities shortly after her defection, saving the Alexandria from Quattro's Mega-Bazooka.
- Rape as Backstory: Implied in the second-to-last episode, as her last words use the term "disgraced," a euphemism for this in Japanese.
- Redemption Equals Death: More of a case of Death Equals Redemption as it actually happens after her death. Her spirit, without hesitation, joins Emma, Lila, Rosamia, Four and all of the other women who saw something special in Kamille's heart. They lend him strength to defeat Scirocco. With her death, Scirocco no longer has a hold on her. So it's reasonable that Reccoa, in spirit, reverted back to her former self.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: The One Year War messed her up so much as a fifteen-year-old guerrilla that she no longer feels normal or settled without putting herself in danger.
- Sixth Ranger: To the Titans and Scirocco's crew in particular.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Reccoa's not a bad pilot, but the opinion of her piloting skill is truly inflated.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: So star-crossed they were never in a romantic relationship, but if Kamille (who was able to recognize and fulfill Reccoa's emotional needs, just not her romantic ones) had been a little older, a lot of tragedy might have been averted. (She also tells Fa not to end up like her.) The scene where he chases her and begs her, screaming, to come back, is heartbreaking.
- Stepford Smiler: Reccoa acts kind, untroubled, and self-sufficient. She is very broken, desperate, and damaged on the inside, and the point where she can no longer contain it is the point where she can't see any point staying with the "good guys" anymore.
- Street Urchin: She was a teenage guerilla during the One Year War.
- Team Mom: Before her issues started putting her relationship with the other pilots in jeopardy. Completely subverted with her Face–Heel Turn.
- There Are No Therapists: Reccoa is desperately in need of some, and this is partly why Z is a tragedy.
- Took a Level in Badass: After defecting to Scirocco, she receives her own custom mecha. It's also around this time that she begins to display Newtype powers.
- Woman Scorned: In her eyes, she's justified in hating Char because she isn't getting as much emotional support as she wants. Kamille backs her up on this by about 200%, violently asking Char why he couldn't treat her more nicely.
Katz Kobayashi
Voice Actors: Keiichi Nanba (Japanese, TV), Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese, Movies), Sean Broadhurst (English)
Main mecha: FXA-05D G-Defenser, MSA-003 Nemo
One of the three war orphans cared for by the White Base in Mobile Suit Gundam, Katz eventually joins the AEUG in the hopes of following in the footsteps of his adoptive father Hayato, the founder of Karaba, as well as his childhood hero, Amuro Ray.
- Alliterative Name: It is now. His birth name according to All There in the Manual was Katz Hawin.
- Ascended Extra: Was one of the three small children on the White Base in Mobile Suit Gundam. Here he's a major supporting character. Unlike the rest of his former crewmates, his role in this show is bigger than in MSG.
- Beady-Eyed Loser: He always jumps into the fray with the intention of proving himself, but ultimately doesn't accomplish too much with this attitude beyond getting scolded.
- Big Damn Heroes:
- In episode 44, Kamille is outmaneuvered by Jerid, and Sarah is desperately pleading with Katz to attack the Axis forces instead of her own. Katz ignores her and rams Jerid's Byarlant with the Methuss, discharging his guns into Jerid's vernier; Kamille is saved and Jerid is forced to retreat.
- In a earlier episode he manages to save Kamille from Jerid using his gifted Chekhov's Gun.
- Chekhov's Gun: Amuro's gun!
- Color Motif: His AEUG uniform is green. He wore green on White Base. He's also the VERY 'green' rookie.
- Dating Catwoman: He and Sarah have a mutual attraction, though it's far stronger on his end. It sadly contributes towards the latter's death.
- Death by Irony: Katz idolizes Amuro, who as a Newtype had enough spatial awareness to be able to map out an asteroid fortress by his mind alone in the finale of the original series, while injured, with the assistance of Katz and his siblings. Katz, by comparison, flies straight into an asteroid due to blacking out in the final battle, failing utterly to live up to his hero and dying a pointless death.
- Foil: Amuro got thrown into the last war on a continual life-or-death basis. Although Katz does manage to save Kamille a couple of times, there was absolutely no need for him to join the AEUG or see combat at all, and he doesn't develop from his experiences. See Irony.
- Happily Adopted: By Frau and Hayato, along with his now-brother and sister Letz and Kikka. He loves them, but unfortunately he thinks going to war is what 15-year-olds do.
- Hero-Worshipper: He used to be like this towards Amuro, but the latter's shellshock turn him into a Broken Pedestal. However, when Amuro decides to sortie out in the Rick Dias, Katz goes right back to idolizing him.
- Hot-Blooded: Unfortunately to an irrational degree early on.
- Irony: Katz has a very limited view of Amuro's heroics in the One Year War, which leads to Katz idolizing Amuro and consequently getting let down when Amuro's behavior doesn't reflect the Ace Pilot he was back then. While this does mean Amuro earns it back when he returns to piloting, Katz ends up experiencing more or less everything that made Amuro understandably frustrated or traumatized seven years ago, the very things that made Amuro so reluctant to return to piloting when the series started.
- For someone who wants to be a pilot so badly that he keeps stealing the AEUG's mobile suits to prove himself, before floundering about repeatedly, some of Katz's most competent moments are when he's on-foot and either using his museum expertise or improvising a means to survive and escape.
- Jerkass Has a Point: He digs his heels in when the AEUG plans to align themselves with Axis, even when it's done as an act of desperation with Granada in danger by the Titans. He's not wrong, however, and Fa takes his side; Zeon is incredibly untrustworthy and a threat on par with the Titans. Even after dismissing them, Emma admits that they've got a point, the AEUG is just too desperate to not ask for help.
- Killed Off for Real: By Yazan Gable. Noticing a pattern here?
- Kill the Ones You Love: To his horror, he shoots Sarah's Bolinoak Sammahn when she ends up Taking the Bullet for a vulnerable Scirocco.
- Love Makes You Dumb: His crush on Sarah seriously impairs his judgement.
- Morality Pet: Ends up becoming one to Sarah because of his earnest and honest behavior.
- Naïve Newcomer: While he is no stranger to war itself, he is new to actually being a part of a ship crew as well as a frontline pilot like his idol Amuro is. This, combined with his rose-tinted impression of the One Year War, result in his being more than a bit off-kilter as to how he should conduct himself.
- Nice Guy: Katz may be annoying, naive, and reckless, but he's also loyal, honest, and kind. Recognized by Sarah and lampshaded by Beltorchika, who greets him as "a nice kid". That's actually the problem — he's far too nice and too young to be anywhere near a battlefield, especially when it's completely unnecessary.
- Parental Abandonment: He ends up like this after being passed along. Frau trusts Amuro to look after him, but once they join Karaba, Hayato decides to let him join the AEUG and go to war in space, where Char apparently promised to look after him.
- Parental Substitute: Averted. Emma does monitor him, as a subordinate, but to a distant enough degree that he still repeatedly causes trouble and eventually gets killed. One of the biggest problems with Katz is being young and naive enough to desperately need one of these note , and in the end, no one really looked after him properly.
- Psychic Powers: A weak Newtype. Unfortunately for him, this doesn't improve over time.
- Skintone Sclerae: Same as when he was a little kid. He's changed so much since, it's one of the few ways of identifying him.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The best way to summarize Katz is "What if someone tried to have a normal teenager as a mecha pilot like Amuro or Kamille, without the qualities that lead to success?" The result is a Deconstruction of all the negative traits of his hero and teammate with next to none of the positive ones, who consequently pisses off many people around him. He also lacks their uncanny ability for machinery and piloting, thus becoming The Load more often than not.
- His decisions made without Bright's approval are looked down upon and confirmed to not be the right course of action, he lashes out when people don't outright agree with him because he's so convinced that he's right, launching and fighting without thinking it over (even if it ends up working out) usually only gets him scolded, and most notably he ends up accidentally killing someone he cared about on the other side because that person tried to shield the person he was trying to kill. Also not experiencing the same degree of PTSD keeps him as a fairly Static Character and gets him killed.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: The kids were bratty in the original show, but not to this level. Katz' takes it into full blown antagonism.
- Unreliable Expositor: Katz openly rails against Amuro for not being as heroic as he was back in the One Year War, but either intentionally ignores or simply forgets that Amuro was prone to shutting down, refusing to talk to others, and having misplaced outbursts because of the stress. It becomes clear throughout the series that he only really remembers the positives of being involved in the One Year War and none of the overwhelming stress it actually caused.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Less dark and more a pain in the neck, but in MSG Katz was the cautious "big brother" of the Tagalong Kids and actually the least bratty and hotheaded of the three. Due to his now being the age Amuro was in the One Year War, he thinks he's fully capable of the same heroics Amuro is and is constantly putting himself and others in danger in order to try and prove it. He's wrong.
Bright Noa
Voice Actors: Hirotaka Suzuokinote (Japanese), Dave Kelly (English)
The captain of the White Base during the One Year War, Bright joins up with the AEUG out of disgust with the Titans. Due to his experiences with Amuro in MSG he has a pretty solid idea of what to expect from Kamille.
- The Captain: It's Bright Noa, what else could he be?
- The Comically Serious: Whenever he gets too serious about running his crew, something happens to take away his dignity; the kids are especially good for that.
- Defector from Decadence: Decides to join the AEUG after realizing that the Titans were becoming just as bad as Zeon.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: As the former trope namer this is to be expected of Bright. He's also on the receiving end of some less than sympathetic variants from the likes of Bask.
- Happily Married: To Mirai, the pilot of the White Base.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bright is still an uptight bastard most of the time. He's also got the safety of his crew as his top priority.
- Older and Wiser: While there's still no helping when the pilots under his command act out, Bright overall has more of a handle on how to run a ship compared to how he started in the last series.
- Psychic Powers: Has low-level Newtype abilities from serving on White Base.
- Team Dad: Keeps this status from the previous series. It helps that now he is an actual father as well.
Commander Blex Forer
Voice Actor: Kouji Ishii (Japanese, Movies), Byron Close (English)
- Big Good: He's responsible for founding the AEUG and is the one leading it, up until his assassination.
- Good Counterpart: As the head of the AEUG he's naturally this to Jamitov. Both men have similar goals about bringing the human race to space but Blex is a compassionate man who wants an end to war while Jamitov's ambitions surpass any desire for peace. Interestingly enough the two are similar in a meta sense; both are the leaders of their factions but their importance to the story is quite minor with their underlings leading the charge.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: As the head of the AEUG, Blex is a kind and intelligent leader dedicated to the freedom of both Spacenoids and Earthlings from the Titans's grasp. Even Char, a man with a bad case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, respects him...
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Which may be due to the fact Blex looks quite a bit like Zeon Deikun. His assassination, with Char unable to prevent it, is both understandably a massive trigger for Char and the start of the show's very bleak final arcs in general.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Much like Jamitov, Blex is rather underdeveloped for such a major character in the narrative and he's killed a little under halfway through the series. He ultimately put in only a few appearances and the AEUG tended to be lead by Henken, Bright, or Quattro rather than him.
Apolly Bay
Voice Actors: Hiroyuki Shibamoto (Japanese, TV), Tōru Ōkawa (Japanese, Movies), Scott Roberts (English)
Main mecha: RMS-099 Rick Dias
A former Zeon pilot who finds employ with the AEUG. A man of few words, he acts as the leader of the Rick Diases, and racks up a fair number of kills, despite rarely being onscreen, forming something of a friendship with Kamille in the process.
- Ace Pilot: Apolly was a Zeon ace during the One Year War, and he earns his stripes again in this one, downing an impressive number of Titans' suits despite his rare appearances.
- Ascended Extra: Apolly and Roberto have a larger role in Char's Deleted Affair. In fact, it's revealed that both of them were under Char's command back in the One Year War.
- Audience Surrogate: And often ends up voicing what the fans are thinking as well
- Big Damn Heroes He does this surprisingly often for a minor character, but he gets extra points for doing it once in the brand new Zeta Gundam
- Deadpan Snarker: One of his few personality traits that does shine through. He's constantly snarking, whether about Kamille and Fa, the stupidity of the situation, or even Mineva Zabi's entrance.
- Intergenerational Friendship: He and Fa are quite friendly and he helps her out of a couple of scrapes. When the Zeta Gundam first debuted they tag-teamed Jerid.
- Killed Off for Real: At the hands of Jerid Messa in Episode 45.
- Mauve Shirt: Leads the Rick Dias, making him the heroic equivalent of an Elite Mook.
- Mook Lieutenant: Heroic example, as leader of the Rick Dias.
- Nice Guy: He might be a quippy former Zeon pilot, but Apolly is very friendly and easy to get along with.
- Taking the Bullet: Dies shielding a Red Shirt in the series, Fa in A New Translation.
- Those Two Guys: He and his partner Roberto are this in the first few episodes. Then Roberto dies, and Apolly graduates to Mauve Shirt status.
Roberto
Voice Actors: Kôzô Shioya (Japanese), Tommy James (English)
Main mecha: RMS-099 Rick Dias
A former Zeon pilot who works with the AEUG. Roberto was one of the Rick Dias pilots alongside Apolly.
- An Arm and a Leg: His Rick Dias loses an arm to one of the Titan GM's during their first attempt to steal the Gundam MK II. It's repaired after the battle.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He dies defending a shuttle with Apolly and many other AEUG pilots from Buran's Federation Squad. Apolly and the others make it, but Roberto is shot in the back by Buran's Asshimar and killed.
- Improvised Weapon: When fighting a bunch of Federation HI-Zacks, Roberto takes off one of his Rick Dias's fuel tanks and hurls it at one and then detonates it with the laser pistols on his back.
- Only One Name: Oddly enough, his last name isn't listed, unlike his fellow wingman Apolly.
- Satellite Character: Roberto largely revolves around Quattro and Apolly. While he and Apolly often appeared together, Apolly tended to speak and be characterized much more.
- Those Two Guys: He and Apolly are this, often being the two named background pilots who would accompany the leads with back-up. Though when together, Apolly got more screen time and lines.
Shinta and Qum
Voice Actors: Chika Sakamoto (Shinta) & Mayumi Shou (Qum)
A pair of orphans that Quattro brings to space following his second visit to Earth.
- Accidental Hero: After a brief argument with Fa, they decide to play hide and seek in the best spot they can think of and Fa panics when she can't find them, leading to her and Kamille going out into the city where the Argama is docked. In the process, Kamille discovers Sarah's attempt to bomb the entire area in an attempt to destroy the ship, and while he can't prevent it, he's still able to evacuate the city and get the Argama to take off before the bombs go off. Kamille saving not just the Argama crew but also the population of the city is all due to Shinta and Qum acting up.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Two of them!
- Children Are Innocent: Almost to a fault.
- Cheerful Child: Also the both of them. Their presence adds some levity in the darker second half of the show.
- Foil: To Katz and his siblings. Unlike the trio as they were in the last show, they don't have a moment where they intentionally manage to save the day, and are mostly only around to provide some lighthearted moments as the series gets progressively darker. But seeing as Katz is present and older...see below.
- The Load: Downplayed. They don't quite do anything that directly benefits the crew, but they also manage to be less trouble and cause less problems than Katz. In turn however, they also directly lead to much bigger problems at least twice down the line, though their hearts were undoubtedly in the right place.
- Pet the Dog: They don't carry out any, but they are the recipient of some nicer moments in the series, such as Wong giving them some juice or Kamille throwing a paper airplane back at them when one thrown by Shinta drifts his way.
- Horrible Judge of Character: During her time imprisoned on the Argama Sarah ends up tricking them into letting her out of confinement. Justified, as they're young children that don't have the sense to doubt others they meet have good intentions. Happens again with Rosamia later, although under more complicated circumstances given her childlike and fractured psyche.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Rosamia ends up hijacking a Nemo and leaving the Argama because of their encouragement and distracting the launch crew long enough for her to take off.
Dr. Hasan
Voice Actors: Masaharu Sato
The main physician aboard the Argama. Dr. Hasan sees to the upkeep of the crew's health and when Rosamia comes aboard he performs a few tests on her to try and learn if she's a Cyber-Newtype, in the process he helps articulate what Cyber-Newtypes actually are.
- Accidental Pervert: As a doctor he performs physicals and it can be a source of slight comedy when dealing with some of the female characters especially because Hasan doesn't really mean anything other than checking people's health.
- The Bus Came Back: He makes it through Zeta intact and shows up again in Gundam Unicorn.
- Mr. Exposition: He explains some of the science behind Cyber-Newtypes and provides a fairly logical explanation for why they're being created.
- Nice Guy: He's a patient man with a fairly good bedside manner. As difficult as Rosamia is with her fear of doctors (at one point biting Hasan), he still manages to calm her down and eases her into the exams.
Torres, Saegusa, and Astonaige
Torres is voiced by: Kenta Abe (Japanese), Roger Rhodes (English)
Astonaige is voiced by: Shingo Hiromori (Japanese), C. Adam Leigh (English)
Torres and Saegusa stand in for the Argama's bridge crew while Astonaige is the head of the mechanics. While not usually in the spotlight, they provide some levity when Kamille and the remainder of the cast bounce off of them.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Both Torres and Saegusa look forward to seeing Kamille's souvenir for them, which is heavily implied to be a pornographic video tape of some kind.
- Hidden Depths: Torres is mentioned to be able to pilot a mobile suit when better options aren't available, as Bright nearly sends him out when Katz is unaccounted for.
- Living Prop: The majority of the time.
- Mission Control: They mainly stay out of the fight and provide assistance by relaying information between the pilots and the rest of the ship crew.
- No Hero to His Valet: Both Torres and Saegusa rib Kamille for his homesickness and even get to the point of escalating a punch-out that he starts, while Astonaige openly laughs at Kamille's expense.Kamille: Do I really seem like that much of a geek to you?Astonaige: (laughing to the point of tears) You sure do!
